Word: proust
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...Proust might have objected that he was real, while Marcel was in the book. What sets Berryman off from Henry is not the simple ontological difference between a character and a person, but the anguish and brilliance of Berryman's effort to make the distinction between the two of them clear and efficient. It is as if the poet, arguing from a feared poverty of emotional or experiential resources, has peopled his poem with a number of lively selves that cooperate in the restoration of personality. A bright, bitter, courtly, intensely human man is writing an autobiographical poem that turns...
Cantos, Thirty Cantos. Marcel Proust, Du Cote de Chez Swann. Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au Corps. Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Vol de Nuit. Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausee. Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems. Stephen Spender, Ruins and Visions. Wallace Stevens, Harmonium. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians. J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western
Quite apart from Kennedy, it was a vintage year for biography, ranging from George Painter's brilliant but specialized Proust: The Later Years to Richard Dillon's Meriwether Lewis, in its own way an equally special and rather Proustian account of an imaginative, ultimately ravaged figure in U.S. history. For those who remain fascinated by Dylan Thomas, Constantine FitzGibbon retold the life of the doomed Welshman, warts, work, women and booze. In a more sedate mood, Lady Longford, in her Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed, presented the best biographical portrait of the Queen and her age since Strachey...
...PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer...
...PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer. While sculpting the three-dimensional figure of Proust, Poet and British Museum Curator Painter also found time to help authenticate The Vinland Map (see below...